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Open-Content GBA Movie Player Reviewed

Posted by simoniker on from the start-your-encoding-now dept.

wraggster writes "The helpful people over at EAGB have done a great review of a new third-party GBA SP Movie Player Adapter. According to the review: 'This adapter... uses Compact Flash Cards (CF)... [and] comes with its own encoder software which gives the user free reign to encode any movie or music he wants.' They note the 'steep learning curve', and a 'rudimentary' feature set, but conclude: 'nothing beats that wow! factor when you see your first movie playing on the GBA/SP'." This is an interesting alternative to the recently announced U.S. and already-released Japanese GBA movie players, both of which restrict the movie content you can put on your Game Boy in some way.

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  1. Compatibility by Klatoo55 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is it possible that the popularity of the game boy in connection with CompactFlash connectivity could boost the CF cards ahead of their competitors?

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  2. Come on apple. We want iVideo! by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I got an mp3 hd player but watching videos as well would so good for those of us who use public transport (and live in countries were street robbery is still rare).

    This sounds like a nice device but ideally you want something that can just play any format. Including just copying dvd to it and play. (nothing illegal about that is there?).

    Oh and please don't say laptop. I mean something that fits inside your trouser pocket and can survice a little bit of rough handling.

    Steve Jobs get a move on.

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    1. Re:Come on apple. We want iVideo! by damiam · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Cringley's predictions are right only because they're too vague/obvious to be wrong. Apple's put out job ads for a developer position involving a video iPod. That's all anyone knows, including Cringely.

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  3. roms on CF? by gearheadsmp · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just want an adapter that lets me run rom's off a CF card. Buying a 128mbit rom device is expensive, considering quite a few rom's are 64mbit. I'm sure there's some technical reason behind not using CFlash, but it sure would be cheaper.

  4. Why should we even care about those things?! by IntergalacticWalrus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The GBA is definitely not powerful enough to run movies at a decent quality (even with an extra peripherical that does some of the decoding work, there are limits), and besides the resolution is way too small.